What a sick little ideologue we have in the White House."Today, as we reflect on the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, we recommit ourselves to the decision’s guiding principle: that every woman should be able to make her own choices about her body and her health. We reaffirm our steadfast commitment to protecting a woman’s access to safe, affordable health care and her constitutional right to privacy, including the right to reproductive freedom. And we resolve to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, support maternal and child health, and continue to build safe and healthy communities for all our children. Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams."
Ed Morrissey of HotAir begged to differ 'on behalf of the 55 million whose opportunities for freedom and dreams got sucked out of existence when the same thing happened to them.'
The core value of the freedom to life was denied those millions of victims. Abortion is literally the antithesis of that final sentence, and a horrid parody of reality for “all our children.”Morrissey also picked up on a report from TheHill that states Republicans plan to make this an issue for the midterms. There's the inclination to just expect lip service from the current so-called leadership, with no real meaningful push behind it. But if they really are encouraging GOP candidates to discuss abortion openly, then they better be prepared to have principles behind it and intelligent articulation to back it up.
That strategy requires political candidates who can discuss the subject intelligently. We’ve seen what happens when Republicans attempt to “wing it” during interviews, and the media will be as anxious as ever to cast the GOP as “extreme” on abortion.Related link: Obama on abortion anniversary: “This is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom…to fulfill their dreams”
If the RNC really wants to put this issue on the table for 2014, then it had better plan for those eventualities. (They did postpone their winter meeting to allow Republicans on Capitol Hill to participate in March for Life demonstrations today.)
